43, Parliament Street SW1 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. A Georgian Town house.

43, Parliament Street SW1

WRENN ID
crooked-copper-claret
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1970
Type
Town house
Period
Georgian
Address
43, Parliament Street SW1, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 301 797
Coordinates
51.50158, -0.12576
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 43 Parliament Street is a terraced town house built around 1753. It is constructed of grey stock brick and features a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high, with a basement and a dormered mansard, and it has three windows across its front. The entrance is located on the right side and includes a panelled door with a fanlight, set within a wooden doorcase supported by three-quarter Doric columns, with dosserets and an open bracketed pediment. The Doric capitals are also used in the architrave above the door and as imposts for the archivolt, which has a keystone. The windows are recessed sashes beneath gauged flat arches. A plat band and sill band create a pseudo-pedestal effect on the first floor. The building is topped with a stone cyma recta modillion cornice and a blocking course. There are late 19th-century cast iron railings in the area.

Inside, the house features a good interior with a cut string staircase that has a rare Chinese Chippendale fretwork balustrade, along with moulded cornices, doorcases, and shutters. The main rooms contain fine statuary marble chimneypieces, likely crafted by Sir Henry Cheere. This house, along with No 44, is one of the only surviving terrace houses from the original Parliament Street, which was opened between 1749 and 1750.

Local climate

43, Parliament Street SW1 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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